Friday, January 04, 2019

Locker-room talk

Freshman U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in
calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just hours after
being sworn in.

Speaking to a crowd of
supporters Thursday night, the Michigan Democrat and one of the first
Muslim women elected to Congress said of Trump: "People love you and you
win. And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won.
Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we’re gonna
go in there and we’re gonna impeach the mother***er.'”*

Perhaps the snowflakes should calm down a bit. If you were writing a set of rules for coding political speech,** it'd be hard not to count that as "locker-room talk" -- though admittedly more like a rookie who had doubled twice, singled and stolen a base in the first game of the Series than like an old con artist after a golf game. And it does seem a bit late in the going to get all huffy about locker-room talk. Maybe Rep. Tlaib should try changing the subject?

You know, when we have a world where you
have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have — and, frankly, drowning
people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights
all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like
medieval times. We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over
the world.

And they look and they
see. Can you imagine the people that are, frankly, doing so well against
us with ISIS? And they look at our country and they see what’s going
on.

Yes, I’m very embarrassed by it. I
hate it. But it’s locker room talk, and it’s one of those things. I
will knock the hell out of ISIS. We’re going to defeat ISIS. ISIS
happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad
judgment. And I will tell you, I will take care of ISIS.

So no, "unveiled" probably wasn't an accident either.

There are some cool subroutines of news practice going on in Fox's follow-up: